Can Pakistan Present Its Case On Kashmir Despite India’s Immense Global Influence?
Mass atrocities in Kashmir are a daily routine. An indefinite curfew keeps people incarcerated with the help of hundreds of ...
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TTP May Prove To Be The Tip Of An Iceberg: Considerations For The Proposed Military Action
Since assuming power in Kabul in August 2021, the Afghan Taliban have faced an arch-rival in the form of IS-Khorasan ...
Rediscovering Eqbal With An E
In my early days in university, I endeavoured to participate in the class discussion about US incursions into various countries ...
Negotiating Islam And Pashtunwali: How Women Live Through Gendered Power Mechanisms
Some inhabitants of the women’s refuge were rebellious teenagers, others claimed to be wives of the Taliban, but most had ...
Counterterrorism: Appeasement Will Not Work
In one of his fables, Aesop tells us that a gnat woke up one day in the savannah. It was ...
When Will Our Clerics Teach Actual Islam?
On the 13th of December, Maulana Akbar Chitrali was screeching in the parliament, lamenting the ‘disgrace’ that a woman, Hina ...
The Political Leadership That Pakistan Does Not Need In This Moment
What kind of political leaders does Pakistani society need? Certainly not the type that are currently in the running for ...
Is Pakistan Prepared As The TTP Returns?
As Pakistan is already undergoing a wave of multiple crisis, the announcement of the end of ceasefire by the Tehreek-i-Taliban ...
Forgotten Struggles: The Erasure Of People’s History (And The Present) In Pakistan
Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the ...
News Analysis | Pakistan’s Fisheries In Deep Water Due To State Incompetence
Like other coastal nations, the Government of Pakistan every year celebrates world fisheries day on the 21st of November to ...
Will General Asim Munir Reduce Military Meddling In Pakistani Politics?
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has nominated General Asim Munir to be the next army chief, putting an end to months ...
The Real Loser In the Power Game
In this continued tug of war of power among the political parties, individuals and the establishment, the possibility of a ...
Why Imran Khan And Nawaz Sharif Were Denied Their Revolutions
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, was once reminded by a Western intellectual, in the wake of the ...
Faces of Resilience: The Intersections Of Religious Intolerance, Gender & Vulnerabilities In South Asia During The Pandemic
The COVID19 pandemic has claimed more than 3.95 million victims worldwide. Nowhere in sight is any kind of respite. With ...
Pakistan Forgets Too Easily The Sacrifices Of Christian Heroes In Resisting Terrorist Attacks
They say being a martyr is an honour bestowed to few who carry the ability to acknowledge something beyond the ...
Facing The Flood Affectees: Meet Gulnaz From Dhirghi
Humanising the statistics on the rural poor in Pakistan has always been a challenge. In a country which has become ...
Is The Establishment Of Pakistan Facing Political Pressure?
The politicisation of the establishment by a political party is a recent development in the history of Pakistan. It is ...
The Revamping Of MQM: Karachi’s Ignored Custodial Torture
As per reports, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has mobilised the Interior Ministry to formulate a detailed report on the ...
Hiding In Plain Sight: The Not-So-Deep Reality Of The Deep State
In 2020, a friend, settled in the US, quipped that never had he heard so many Pakistanis (in the US) ...
As Governor-General, The Quaid’s Commitment To Secularism Exceeded Western Countries
On the 4th of November 1953, Queen Elizabeth II took her oath in front of the Archbishop, who asked, "Will ...
In Balochistan, Families Of Slain Journalists Await Justice
Journalist Shahid Zehri, reporter for Metro One News television in the industrial city of Hub in Lasbela district of Baluchistan, ...
Pakistan’s Wars: An Alternative History By Tariq Rehman
The birth of Pakistan saw the 1948 Kashmir conflict and since then, the country has been in a state of ...
The Case For Queen Elizabeth II
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been marked nearly universally as the passing away of a lady of immense ...
Debunking Myths Around The Mughals: Did The Pre-Colonial Subcontinent Really Need A White Man’s Saving?
One of the prime examples of history being moulded and misinterpreted in order to provide political justifications is the historiography ...
Interpreting Faiz: A Distant Lover’s Memory or the Longing for a Utopian State?
Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...
As Balochistan Is Drowning, Disaster Management Authorities Have Not Risen To The Occasion
The recent rains have wreaked havoc in Balochistan, mourning is everywhere and people are screaming to help us, but sadly ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
9 May, The Domino Effect And The Unraveling Of PTI
Party members and some senior office holders of...
Mismanagement Plagues Punjab’s Model Bazaars Initiative
LAHORE: The Punjab Model Bazaars Management Company (PMBMC)...